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Dallas is fired up! – UPDATE

UPDATE:  Mr. Adams provided us with his extended remarks, which is now published as a letter to the editor in the Mineral Daily News-Tribune.  For your convenience, we have replaced the earlier versio… more →

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Dallas is fired up! - UPDATE — 2 comments

morgan wrote 1 year ago: UPDATE:  Mr. Adams provided us with his extended remarks, which is now published as a letter to the … more →

Tags: Pinnacle Wind Farm, US WindForce, Jon Boone, Wind Energy Shenanigans, Edison Mission, Industrial Wind Performance, WV wind, Pinnacle wind, wind farm output

Reader challenges wind advocates to include all the facts!

morgan wrote 1 year ago: The following letter was submitted to local newspapers by Keyser WV resident Dallas Adams, Sr. Lette … more →

Tags: Mineral County WV, Allegheny Mountains, West Virginia Wind, Windpower Industry False Claims, Industrial wind jobs, Keyser WV, WV wind energy, Eastern WV Community College and Technical Center, wind capacity v generation

Wind farms are "unreliable and this could leave the network dangerously exposed to blackouts."

morgan wrote 1 year ago: That’s the word from Australian state owned electricity generator Western Power, according to … more →

Tags: Wind Power subsidies, Renewable Energy Scam, industrial wind failure, industrial wind in Australia, wind blackouts, wind unreliable

Stating the obvious about industrial wind - "Something is Missing" — 3 comments

morgan wrote 1 year ago: I don’t want to be accused of putting words in their mouth, so I’ll just use Idaho Power … more →

Tags: Glenn Schleede, industrial wind v fossil fuel, industrial wind failure, wind energy failures, Bonneville Power Authority, wind variability, Idaho wind power, BPA wind energy

Trouble in Paradise: "wind farms are investment schemes, not reliable energy production plants!"

morgan wrote 2 years ago: That’s the opinion of Panos Prevedouros, PhD, as expressed in his commentary posted at the Haw … more →

Tags: industrial wind cost, industrial wind scam, picken's plan, Hawaii wind farm, industrial wind profits, Gabriel Alonso

To borrow from the late, great Edwin Starr: "Wind, huh, yeah, What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! Uh-huh!"

morgan wrote 2 years ago: At least that’s what a growing number of citizen’s feel about industrial wind’s ab … more →

Tags: Jon Boone, industrial wind cost, industrial wind v fossil fuel, industrial wind failure, Ontario Wind Performance, U.S. Energy Information Agency, MasterResource, Frank Maisano, Bonneville Power

Invest in wind energy? You're kidding, right?

morgan wrote 2 years ago: So, if private investors are finding that wind and solar are lousy investments, even with all the su … more →

Tags: Wind Power subsidies, Alternative Energy, Solar energy, industrial wind investments, renewable stocks, industrial wind mutual funds, industrial wind poor market performance, wind energy profits

"Enron's Legacy" - Jon Boone — 3 comments

morgan wrote 2 years ago: We thank Jon Boone for granting permission to publish his recent Letter to the Editor: Editor, A dec … more →

Tags: Jon Boone, Appalachian Mountains, Maryland wind energy, Ken Lay, enron, Obama wind energy

Jon Boone: Oxymoronic Windpower

morgan wrote 2 years ago: Mr. Boone’s article originally appeared at MasterResource, the premier “free-market ener … more →

Tags: Wind v Coal, Jon Boone, Windpower Industry False Claims, industrial wind failure, Enron industrial wind, wind energy failure, modern power, wind energy unreliability, wind variability

Industrial wind ... NOT HERE! NOT ANYWHERE!

morgan wrote 2 years ago: __________________________________________________________ _________________________________________ … more →

Tags: industrial wind failure, industrial wind NIMBY, wind energy opponents, wind won't work, stop industrial wind, wind energy not "green"

The Allegheny Highlands Alliance: "What We Expect From Commercial Electricity." (video) — 1 comment

morgan wrote 2 years ago: We thank the Allegheny Highlands Alliance for granting us permission to post their latest video, … more →

Tags: Wind Power subsidies, industrial wind cost, Allegheny Highlands Alliance, industrial wind, wind farm subsidies, fossil fuel back-up, reliable affordable secure electricity, greenhouse gasses

“Write it down on a block of ice.” UPDATE

morgan wrote 2 years ago: My dad liked that phrase … “Write it down on a block of ice!”  He used to tell me … more →

Tags: Allegheny Mountains, Industrial Wind Taxes, Industrial Wind Performance, Somerset County PA, Ever Power Wind Holdings, Pennsylvania wind farms, wind farm taxes

"The investment in CFLs would save more than 5 times as much electricity in 5 years than the wind turbine would produce in 20 years."

morgan wrote 2 years ago: Glenn Schleede provides his, as always, interesting take on energy issues.  In this corner, it … more →

Tags: Glenn Schleede, CFL v Wind Turbine, energy conservation v energy production, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, energy saving bulbs

Call for increased scrutiny of industrial wind farms makes sense.

morgan wrote 2 years ago: The following letter was submitted to the Charleston “WV” Daily Mail in response to thei … more →

Tags: Appalachian Mountains, Environment, West Virginia Wind, Energy Security, US windmills, WV wind farm, scrutiny of wind farms

Putin: "Nuclear energy only alternative to oil, gas." Rejects other alternative energy approaches as "claptrap."

morgan wrote 2 years ago: Seems our Russian friends have a renewable energy plan, and it’s interesting what it doesn … more →

Tags: Nuclear Energy, industrial wind failure, industrial wind failures, Russia Nuclear energy, Putin nuclear, Medvedev nuclear

British expert: Wind farms producing less than 25% should not receive subsidies.

morgan wrote 2 years ago: This is what the US can expect if Congress continues to throw our money at this failed industry. Fro … more →

Tags: Wind Power subsidies, wind subsidies, British wind

NIMBY defined: "with a golden rule twist: NIABY: Not in anybody's backyard. This (industrial wind) is a flawed technology, with too high a quality-of-life price tag." — 1 comment

morgan wrote 2 years ago: A remarkable exchange on the topic of NIMBY and the impact of industrial Wind on communities. (thank … more →

Tags: Friends and Citizens Groups, Jon Boone, Environment, Wind energy NIMBYS, Eric Bibler, Wellfleet, Brent Harold, WESRA

Based on "cost, reliability, and cleanliness ... an energy plan that is heavily reliant on wind-generated energy is not realistic."

morgan wrote 2 years ago: In his opinion piece at The Daily Caller titled, Beyond the spin: The truth about wind energy genera … more →

Tags: industrial wind cost, industrial wind failure, renewable energy, industrial wind unreliable, PACE, Lance Brown, truth about wind energy

Wind passes gas!

morgan wrote 2 years ago: By now, you would think folks at the NY Times would know that the installed capacity (nameplate rati … more →

Tags: Jon Boone, industrial wind v fossil fuel, wind's actual output, wind installed capacity, wind v natural gas


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